reassign 683099 aptitude 0.6.8-1 retitle 683099 aptitude: Doesn't use 'usual' mechanisms to put packages on hold -- Hi! This is a problem with Aptitude, since it writes it's own file to manage package locks and does not use the usual Apt mechanism. If you want to lock a package, use $ sudo apt-mark hold <package-name> instead, and the package will be locked. It would be really great if Aptitude could use this mechanism too too support other tools. Cheers, Matthias
2012/7/28 Markus Koschany <a...@gambaru.de>: > Package: gnome-packagekit > Version: 3.4.2-1 > Severity: normal > > Dear Maintainer, > > gnome-packagekit ignores my aptitude settings and updates packages > which i have put on hold. > > I would have expected that either the package in question, libcairo2, > is grayed out, not available for an upgrade or perhaps that > gnome-packagekit presents some alternative ways to unhold/hold the > package or to inform the user about possible consequences. > > ---How you can reproduce the bug--- > > 1. Downgrade libcairo2 1.12 to version 1.10 in squeeze-backports. > 2. aptitude hold libcairo2 > 3. Open gnome-packagekit. > 4. If you perform an upgrade even packages on hold will be upgraded. > > The interesting part is gnome-packagekit installs a newer version of > libcairo2 but still puts the package on hold. Depending on how > important the package in question is this could lead to surprising > effects. > > I have found a three year old upstream bug report which describes the > same issue. [1] Perhaps you should consider to reopen it. > > Kind regards > Markus Koschany > > [1] https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=24795 > > > -- System Information: > Debian Release: wheezy/sid > APT prefers testing > APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (500, 'unstable') > Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) > Foreign Architectures: i386 > > Kernel: Linux 3.2.0-3-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores) > Locale: LANG=de_DE.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=de_DE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) > Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash > > Versions of packages gnome-packagekit depends on: > ii dconf-gsettings-backend [gsettings-backend] 0.12.1-2 > ii gnome-packagekit-data 3.4.2-1 > ii gnome-settings-daemon 3.4.2-3 > ii libatk1.0-0 2.4.0-2 > ii libc6 2.13-33 > ii libcairo-gobject2 1.12.2-2 > ii libcairo2 1.10.2-7~bpo60+1 > ii libcanberra-gtk3-0 0.28-4 > ii libcanberra0 0.28-4 > ii libdbus-1-3 1.6.0-1 > ii libdbus-glib-1-2 0.100-1 > ii libfontconfig1 2.9.0-6 > ii libgdk-pixbuf2.0-0 2.26.1-1 > ii libglib2.0-0 2.32.3-1 > ii libgtk-3-0 3.4.2-2 > ii libnotify4 0.7.5-1 > ii libpackagekit-glib2-14 0.7.5-2 > ii libpango1.0-0 1.30.0-1 > ii libsqlite3-0 3.7.13-1 > ii libupower-glib1 0.9.17-1 > ii libx11-6 2:1.5.0-1 > ii packagekit 0.7.5-2 > > gnome-packagekit recommends no packages. > > gnome-packagekit suggests no packages. > > -- no debconf information -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org